Corban Seavers learned to play chess with one of the best players he knew – his father. “He didn’t just throw a board in front of me and have the pieces there,” Seavers recalled. “He taught me about opening strategy. … Read More
The KCD Theater will present Fiddler on the Roof, the famed Broadway musical about life in the Russian Pale of Settlement, during February at Kentucky Country Day School. Based on the stories by Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, and set in … Read More
Each year, the Jewish Community Center recognizes teen leaders who have shone as leaders in BBYO and have been involved in other parts of the community with special awards. This year, the Ellen Faye Garmon Award goes to Audrey Nussbaum … Read More
[by Phyllis Shaikun] Jacob Spielberg, a 17-year-old junior at Kentucky Country Day School, is the recipient of the 2012 Ellen and Milton Cantor Israel Scholarship. He has been a very active member of Louisville BBYO, having served as president of … Read More
[by Shiela Steinman Wallace] Terezin was a Nazi concentration camp. Yet it was different from the other camps. It was the place where the Nazis sent artists and musicians. Some children were permitted to live there, and when the Red … Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ben Goldenberg Marketing Manager 502-618-5336 bgoldenberg@jewishlouisville.org Matt Goldberg Community Relations Director 502-238-2707 mgoldberg@jewishlouisville.org Children to Lead 2012 Yom HaShoah Commemoration LOUISVILLE, KY (April 12, 2012) – “I never saw another butterfly”-Pavel Friedmann The book by the same … Read More
[by Shiela Steinman Wallace] I never saw another butterfly… The last, the very last, So richly, brightly, dazzling yellow. – Pavel Friedmann, Terezin Those words are the start of a stirring poem by Pavel Friedmann, a child inmate of the … Read More